Schedule

INTRODUCTION

September 4

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 

September 11

Mills, The Power Elite, chaps. 1-10 and "Afterword" by Alan Wolfe.

Hal Plotkin, "War Boom: More Pentagon Spending Could Actually Hurt Silicon Valley" (San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2001).

Paul Krugman, "The White Stuff" (New York Times, April 12, 2002).

"Parties Maneuver over Risks in Growing Business Scandal" (New York Times, June 28, 2002).

Frank Rich, "All the President's Enrons" (New York Times, July 6, 2002).

Paul Krugman, "The Insider Game" (New York Times, July 12, 2002).

September 18

Mills, The Power Elite, chaps. 11-13.

Smelser, Neil J. and Richard Swedberg. 1994. "The Sociological Perspective on the Economy." Pp. 3-26 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by N. J. Smesler and R. Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers.

Pearce, Frank. 2001. "Crime and Capitalist Business Corporations." Pp. 35-48 in Crimes of Privilege, edited by N. Shover and J. P. Wright. New York: Oxford University Press. 

 THE EVOLUTION OF BIG BUSINESS

September 25

Derber, Charles. 1998. "The Making of the Corporate Mystique." Pp. 118-136 in Corporation Nation. New York: St. Martin's.

Porter, The Rise of Big Business, 1860-1920.

Harvey, David. 1990. "Fordism." Pp. 125-140 in The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

October 2

Bluestone, Barry and Bennett Harrison. 1988. "'Zapping Labor.'" Pp. 21-52 in The Great U-Turn. New York: Basic Books.

Sciulli, David. 2001. "The Turbulence of the 1980s." Pp. 31-57 in Corporate Power in Civil Society. New York: New York University Press.

Useem, Michael. 1996. "Restructuring the Corporation." Pp. 137-167 in Investor Capitalism. New York: Basic Books.

Frank Rich, "Sacrifice is for Losers" (New York Times, June 22, 2002).

James Surowiecki, "Did Iaccoca Ruin American Business?" (Guardian Unlimited, July 23, 2002).

"Back to School, but This One is for Top Corporate Officials" (New York Times, September 3, 2002).

CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP

October 9

Foglesong, Married to the Mouse 

FALL BREAK: October 12-20

October 23

Term paper proposals are due.

Welch, Jack: Straight From the Gut.

Frank, Thomas. 2000. "In Search of Legitimacy." Pp. 220-251 in One Market Under God. New York: Doubleday.

"The Greedy Bunch" (Fortune, June 2002).

"The Imperial Chief Executive is Suddenly in the Cross Hairs" (by David Leonhardt, New York Times, June 24, 2002).

"Downsizing the Imperial C.E.O." (New York Times, August 9, 2002).

"G.E. Expenses for Ex-Chief Cited in Divorce Papers" (New York Times, September 6, 2002).

"Good Charisma, Bad Business" (by Rakesh Khurana, New York Times, September 13, 2002).

"G.E.'s Ex-Chief to Pay for Perks, but How Much?" (New York Times, September 17, 2002).

October 30

Himmelstein, Looking Good and Doing Good.

"In Charity, Where Does a C.E.O. End and a Company Start?" (New York Times, September 22, 2002).

PROMOTING GLOBALIZATION

November 6

Sklair, The Transnational Capitalist Class.

"Is Big Business Going Green?" (Wired News, August 26, 2002).

November 13

In-class film: "The Commanding Heights: The New Rules of the Game" (2002).

Singh, The Globalisation of Finance 

"Credit Rating of WorldCom is Cut to Junk" (New York Times, May 10, 2002).

"Who Should Mete Out Punishment?" (New York Times, July 17, 2002).

November 20

Eichengreen, Barry and Peter B. Kenen. 1994. "Managing the World Economy under the Bretton Woods System: An Overview." Pp. 3-57 in Managing the World Economy, edited by P. B. Kenen. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics.

Vines, David. 1998. "The WTO in Relation to the Fund and the Bank: Competencies, Agendas, and Linkages" (including "Comment" by Julio J. Nogués). Pp. 59-95 in The WTO as an International Organization, edited by A. O. Krueger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wallach & Sforza, The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization.

"Still Poor, Latin Americans Protest Push for Open Markets" (New York Times, July 19, 2002).

"The Lost Continent" (by Paul Krugman, New York Times, August 9, 2002).

"Rich Nations Are Criticized for Enforcing Trade Barriers" (New York Times, September 30, 2002).

November 27

Present case-study research for term papers.

December 4

Present case-study research for term papers.

Exam week: TBA

Final term paper is due.